"India top court rejects Vedanta's plea to reopen Sterlite Copper's smelting unit - lawyer," 29 February 2024

India's top court on Thursday rejected miner Vedanta's plea to reopen the Sterlite Copper's smelting unit in southern India...

Sterlite Copper was forced to shut the smelter, which produces more than 400,000 tons of copper annually, by Tamil Nadu state in 2019 after police killed 13 demonstrators protesting against the plant.

Vedanta's Sterlite Copper did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Vedanta had offered to sell the copper smelter complex in the coastal city of Thoothukudi after the deaths as repeated attempts to re-open the plant failed.

Locals and environmental activists have long demanded a shutdown of the copper smelter, citing air and water pollution.

Vedanta had refuted the claims made about pollution. ...